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I'm a big fan of kits, due to their lower prices and the fact that I enjoy building them. However, I also have some RTR cars, some of which I would not have liked building from a kit - the Athearn Bombardier bilevel cars are a case in point - installing all those little plastic grab irons/bells/horns/etc would probably have become very frustrating, as well as being tricky to make a decent job of. The models that annoy me are when a manufacturer (Athearn particularly) decides to discontinue a kit and release the model RTR at a far higher price - their RTR Gunderson Maxi-III 5-unit double stack car is now priced at £60 RTR, while the kit was £30. Even if I took into account fitting metal wheels to bring the kit up to the same standard, I would still have saved enough to buy several containers to load the model with and a pack of Kadees (which I would need for the RTR car as well).
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